Departments

The Departments subsection of the Catalog section lets you manage product departments.

At the top right of the department list there are buttons to add new departments and delete them. For each department you can enter, in addition to a name and description, two images, product display settings, and information for better search engine indexing.

The following table lists the information you can configure for a department:

Name	Department name.
Description	Description displayed on the department page.
Import code	Code used for catalog import with Excel files. If you import products with Excel files, it is important to fill this field with a code that must appear in the Excel file under the Department field.
Small image	Department image typically shown with the department name when it appears in a list with other departments.
Large image	Department image shown on the department page.
Alignment	Position where the large image is displayed on the department page. In some templates it may have no effect because they use absolute positioning.
HTML page	Template HTML page used to display the department page. Open2b allows each department to be displayed with its own HTML page.
Sub-department list	Number of columns used to display the list of sub-departments on the department page.
Product display	Criteria for how products are displayed on the department page. You can choose: the number of products per page and the number of columns, image size, and whether to show the short description; the initial sort order for products on the site, given the Position set in each product page. Options are A-Z or Z-A alphabetical, price ascending or descending, and creation date. Customers can then choose a different sort order, except by creation date.
Rows per page	Number of product rows to display on the department page.
Page title	Page title shown in the browser window. The page title is also used by search engines for indexing and in search results. In addition, browsers use the page title as the name when the page is bookmarked. If left empty, Open2b uses the department name as the page title.
Description	Page description. It is not displayed by the browser but is used by search engines for indexing and in search results. If left empty, Open2b uses the department description as the description.
Keywords	Page keywords. They are not displayed by the browser but are used by search engines to index the site.
Position	Position of departments in their menus. You can order departments by a specific position and/or alphabetically. Ordering by specific position, even when some departments use alphabetical order, takes priority and, unlike alphabetical order, remains constant for each site language.
Show on site	Indicates whether the department should always be shown on the site, only if it contains products, or not shown at all.

Add a department

1. Go to the Catalog section.
2. Go to the Departments subsection.
3. If you want to add the department under another department, first navigate to that department by selecting the arrow image to the left of the department name.
4. Click New Department.
5. Fill in the fields as desired, including name and description for each language you manage. See the table above for field descriptions.
6. Click Add.

You can create departments and sub-departments up to 5 levels deep.

Warning: If a department contains products, when you create a sub-department those products will be automatically moved to the new department.

Edit a department

1. Go to the Catalog section.
2. Go to the Departments subsection.
3. If the department is inside another department, navigate using the arrow button until you reach the department containing it.
4. Select the department to edit.
5. Edit the desired fields. To replace or add the image, select the Images tab, click Browse, and choose the image file from your computer.
6. Click Save

Delete one or more departments

Departments containing products cannot be deleted until those products are moved to other departments.

1. Go to the Catalog section.
2. Go to the Departments subsection.
3. Select the checkbox for the department or departments you want to delete.
4. Click Delete. A new window will open.
5. Verify you selected the correct department or departments and click OK.